Get to know

JOE

and his random musings on all things cinematical, and otherwise.

More

than a critic

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Joe has served as a movie critic for Variety. He’s served as a lecturer at the University of Houston’s Jack J. Valenti School of Communications since 2001. He also is a senior writer for Cowboys & Indians magazine, a founding member of the Houston Film Critics Society, blogger, and author of “Joe Leydon’s Guide to Essential Movies You Must See.”

  • Speaker

    Panel moderator and Q&A host at the Nashville, Denver, Dallas, Bahamas and WorldFest/Houston film festivals; a judge for the Slamdance, SXSW, Nashville and Palm Springs film festivals; and a contributing critic for Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide.

  • Critic

    (1982-1995) film critic for The Houston Post. More recently, he has reviewed movies for The San Francisco Examiner, MSNBC.com., NBC affiliate KPRC (NBC affiliate/Houston), CultureMap Houston, and The Houston Press.

  • Writer

    Joe has written for CNN, The New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Tennessean, Dallas Observer, The Shreveport Times, MovieMaker magazine, and Film Comment.